Hope

We can hold hope for a better future while rangatahi work through challenges. We support them to dream and to build skills and access resources needed to make things happen.

We make sure they have the resources they need to create the changes they want.

We believe that rangatahi can make positive change even if we won’t be there to see it.

Thanks to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment for funding the research that created these resources (MAUX2006).

This work by J. Sanders, R. Munford, J. Webster, J. Mercier, D. Abbott & L. Liebenberg is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

When kaimahi work with hope they:

Stay with rangatahi during challenges and support them to manage difficult feelings,
Offer support and reassurance so rangatahi can reframe situations,
Advocate to remove barriers so rangatahi can see change and feel hopeful,
Highlight the strengths and skills they see in rangatahi, remind them how amazing they have been in managing tough lives,
Give emotional and practical support that is culturally relevant,
Help rangatahi to feel confident to talk about their dreams and start to work towards them,
Support rangatahi to build the skills and find the resources they need to achieve their goals and dreams.

To explore this element in more depth go to the PARTH in practice reflection sheet.

Hope reflection sheet PDF 1.35 MB

"Hope" orientated rangatahi voices

Amaia's voice

Amaia feels excited about life.

All Hope voices

Make your own

Paulo's story is about working with barriers and resourcing rangatahi so they can thrive.

When I first met Stan he was on 24/7 home detention. When kids are locked up 24hrs a day it’s really hard to do anything with them at all. So, I turned that around and made him into a vegetable gardener. I said let’s get around this. Let’s give you something to do, and what a difference it made.

The barriers were quite extreme, they were causing him to have serious relationship problems with his partner, with the family in the house because he was just there all the time doing nothing. Then when he started to do something and within a few months he was putting food on the table. It just changed everything. It changed the relationships in the house quite dramatically.

When I did this project with Stan I made sure I had everything he needed in place so he could succeed. We had the tools, we had the seedlings, we had fertiliser we had insect control. Everything I could think of so that he wouldn’t fail and he didn’t, he thrived. So that preparation and resourcing is important as well.

All Hope stories

Tui's story highlights rangatahi service fatigue and how she responded to that.

A rangatahi told me in our first meeting ‘don’t sell me hopes and dreams I have had heaps of people do that’.

I was like, ‘cool this is really good start because I want to tell you a little about myself and then talk about our service’.

Culture had become really significant to him and he needed me to share my whakapapa for this engagement to feel different to other experiences he had had.

All Hope stories

Make your own

Hope indicators

You know you are holding Hope when you:

Have conversations with rangatahi about their dreams and aspirations.
Have a positive vision and hold hope inside yourself for the rangatahi.
Remember that the rangatahi is the centre. It’s not about you and your experiences or expectations, it’s about what they’re trying to achieve or get out of it.
Are optimistic. Believe everyone can always do better.
See the potential and look beyond behaviour to what rangatahi can be.
Stay with a rangatahi when they are having difficult feelings and be emotionally present as well as physically present.
Remember you can reset and try again tomorrow.
Are realistic in your hopes because it’s hard to maintain false hope and rangatahi will recognise if you’re being fake.
Remember you may not always see change quickly. You are sowing seeds for the future.

See the full set of PARTH Indicator Cards here

See the full set of PARTH indicator cards PDF 5.28 MB